skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I've said a few negative things about Ivy Leagues being overpriced here in the last few weeks, so I'm not saying you should necessarily get into $400,000 of student loan debt.

What I didn't like about his take was that it also kind of also excluded getting into like $20,000-$40,000 of debt to go to a decent state school. That's a bad take; getting a degree (at least in a technical field) substantially increases your earning potential, and while $40,000 is a lot of money, it's not out of reach for virtually anyone working in tech or engineering or something adjacent, at least not in the US.

I guess my frustration with his perspective is that it felt extremely reductive; he acts like the only student loan debt you can get into is Harvard-level stuff, but I think that's just not true, and not even the average case. Most people don't get into Harvard, (I think) most people who go to college end up at a state or local university, and as such they're not getting into the obscene levels of debt that you'd get from these yuppie private schools, particularly if they state within state.
> I have a 30 year mortgage on my house with a 2.75% interest rate.

The author on paying down his mortgage:

> It just increased our independence, even if it made no sense on paper. So that's another element of debt that I think goes misunderstood. And a lot of that for both of those points is this idea that people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They don't make them in Excel. They make financial decisions at the dinner table. That's where they're talking about their goals and their own different personalities and their own unique fears and their own unique skills and whatnot. So that's why I kind of push people to say like, it's okay to make financial decisions that don't make any sense on paper if they work for you, if they check the boxes of your psychology and your goals that makes sense for you. And for me, extreme aversion, what looks like an irrational aversion today, and I would say is an irrational aversion to debt, is what works for me and what makes me happy, so that's why I've done it.

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/128

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSaRb-iFwPA
Probably these costs have a lot faster learning curves as they are not as widely deployed yet.
Why was her funeral disrupted to the point of tossing the coffin about?
But then again Windows has no native web cam multiplexing. One app has the camera, and no one else can use it. That app crashes and you need to reboot Windows.

One would think in the edge of remote work, an operating system would bring a virtual web cam driver.

I used ManyCam but they cheated me out of a lifetime license.
Go to Qatar and strike up a conversation like the ones that are had millions of times per day in the US about how awful/incompetent/evil/illegitimate the government is.

It's you who is degrading the meaning of these things. You can go experience the difference for yourself.
May I ask what you use instead?
That would be delusional, since TikTok's success is due to first-mover advantage due to network effects, not any hard to replicate technology or other real moat. They can imagine otherwise but that is just stroking their own egos.

They were the first popular short-form algorithmic addictive feed app. Anyone can make one now (YT Shorts, Insta Reels, etc), there's no secret sauce anymore like there may have been years ago. But TikTok stays number one because they were number one -- network effects.

If they disappear, a new competitor takes over and is just as strong as they were. All the value is in the niche, not the occupant of the niche. It really would be like they're giving it away instead of at least collecting a few billion cash for it. It would be monumentally stupid. They'd get the future competitor just as much whether they sell or not.
Curious what you did in FontForge to merge IM Fell Great Primer Italics into Doves Type Regular. (As I'd very much like to use Doves, e.g., for an e-reader font, but I do want to have italics for such purposes.)

I made a native attempt in FontForge (just doing 'merge fonts'), which (unsurprisingly) didn't work.
You can make it a business to build and license a JavaScript calendar widget. Many companies would rather buy such a library than have their developers pick something FOSS or develop on their own.
There are dedicated posts on the first business day of the month for job matching like this. They are created by an YC/HN account. For the rest of the month / users, it is against the posting guidelines to submit job board like content.
even so, was it optional, or no?
Don't know why this is on HN but anyways.

My youngest will be 9 soon. Finding books for him is pain. I started trying more in the last few weeks, grabbing more or less random things from my local library (beginning chapter books, chapter books). Most of them are series, he liked a few (Galaxy Zack, Time Jumpers, Desmond Cole books), did not like others (Magic Tree House, something called Byte, Code Breakers, and really anything else I gave him). He mostly outgrew Geronimo Stilton books.

They do have book fairs at school and we always go, but we rarely buy anything as it's mostly gifts. We're trying to get book from libraries as opposed to buy them.

They do have an awesome library at school and he spends a few hours per week there and I see that he's taking some books from there, but it's mostly Captain Underpants, Stick Dog, and other comics.

I absolutely DESPISE Dan Pilkey's books (Captain Underpants and Stick Dog) as well as My Weird School (and other Dan Gutman's products), they really dumb things down and basically lead kids away from "regular" (ie long-form) books. I my opinion they can lead to behavior issues in kids, however it's possible that kids simply start reading them during that period when hormones start kicking in.

I have a bunch of books from DK Publishing (coffee table encyclopedias) and leave them an frequented areas of the house, and notice that kids check them up every once in a while, at least that's something. They are designed for people with decreased attention span, if you want to learn about a subject, you read a page or two and you're good.

My older kids stopped reading a lot around that time (~10yo), mostly after reading My Weird School and Captain Underpants and similar crap.

Older kids did go through the entire Lemony Snicket series though (way before NetFlix series came up) so that's something.

My 8yo has an iPad from school (we were forced to get one from school when he did kindergarten remote) but his time is very strictly controlled, and it's only for studying (no games). He does have access to an old XBox but only on weekends and for a limited time. He will not have a smart phone for a long time, that's where we lost our older kids (around 13).

So yeah, it's a major problem...
I was in college when the bars in my college town went smoke free. It was noticeable how all of a sudden I didn't feel like my night needed to end with a shower just because I went out and didn't want to lay in bed smelling like an ashtray. So yeah, well before the hug.
Insightful, thanks!
I don't disable JTAG on field hardware because theres a good chance I'll be expected to do failure analysis or bug-hunting on the production hardware. JTAG is going to make that much easier.

And, lets be honest, your smart IoT coffee maker doesn't really have any secrets that need protecting from you, despite whatever the business team thinks.
> All crossings are controlled by Israel.

This is false. Israel does not control Egypt's or Jordan's borders.

> To me, it looks like majority were killed intentionally based on that list.

By CPJ's own account, that list is not verified:

> Our database will not include all of these casualties until we have completed further investigations into the circumstances surrounding them. For more information, read our FAQ.

I did check some of them, and I would agree some of it look concerning at face value, but I'm not sure if I would take any of those sources at face value. I would very much like to see some investigation into this, but without the war ending, I don't really see how that will happen.
Microsoft readies new AI model to compete with Google, OpenAI
Even if I don't stay in the house for thirty years, it's still better as long as I stay for awhile. When I'm paying my mortgage payments, I'm building some degree of equity into the house, so the only "wasted" money is whatever I pay to interest.

So my plan if I move is exactly what it sounds like: I sell the house and then buy a new one wherever I'm moving to. As long as I'm staying for like 5+ years at that location I think it's still worth it.
Post-WW2 Poland was a totalitarian state with stalinist terror. Soviets installed their puppet communist government and murdered anybody inconvenient - mostly people who were connected to pre-WW2 government, army, guerilla fighter groups that fought against Germans or Russians during WW2, etc.

For example Witold Pilecki, Polish guerilla group (AK) member who voluntered to get captured by Germans and put in Auschwitz camp to see what happens there. Then he wrote a report and escaped from the camp. After the WW2 he was captured by soviets, sentenced to deatch and executed (supposedly for speing for western powers). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki

Leaders of these antinazi partizan groups from WW2 were invited after WW2 to Moscow with the supposed goal being to negotiate. When in Moscow they have been captured and sentenced to death in a show trial, and then executed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Sixteen

Pre-WW2 Polish politician Mikołajczyk and a leader of one of the biggest parties - PSL (agrarian party) - returned from exile to Poland after WW2 and was allowed to have his party in elections (as an exception to appease Polish farmers - other parties were banned and over 30 000 people were imprisoned and executed just before the elections). The elections were falsified to absurd level, PSL was the most popular party by far, yet they got 10% of votes officially. Mikołajczyk escaped to London again and later to USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Miko%C5%82ajczy...

There's thousand such examples. People were terrorized and kept silent out of fear for their lives. There were whole chapters of history you weren't supposed to talk about (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre ).
Interesting point, one could point to Starbucks and other coffee chains as the gateway drug, lowering the barrier to entry for somebody to get "into" coffee while setting a bar considerably higher than burnt diner coffee.

...While still delivering their own flavor of burnt junk, relative to the multitudes of third wave shops that have grown and thrived out of the category that Starbucks created.

So yes, the current version of Starbucks may be ridiculous, but the culture wave it led is a key reason every town or block is able to sustain a passionate small cafe or roastery.
If only bookmarks worked this way too.

Stashing tab sessions temporarily and then just re-arranging and selecting which ones to “bookmark” more permanently.

Oh well.
AIPAC’s predecessor was a direct lobbying arm that was in fact deemed to be directly financed/registered foreign agent
Why do most mammals have 5 fingers?
If your other millions are not liquid then the one million of debt is still a potentially significant liability when adverse events happen. If it is liquid then why bother borrowing for something so small? The spent cash can be replenished quickly when there are no debt payments.
It's a good anecdote but needs a bit more boundary condition. One can always pick a level of abstraction to make an explanation long or short; humans usually pick this level based on context and social convention. For example, if the question was "describe how a keypress results in a screen glyph" can be described in one sentence, or in a long series of books (assuming you get into the firmware, software stack, electronics and materials science, manufacturing processes, etc). For WW2 you could say it started when Hitler invaded Poland, and then France. Or you could get into the Versailles treaty. Or you could talk about the evolution of life on Earth. You might say the latter is pedantic, and it is, but it's also technically an event that led to WW2.
While it makes sense for SO to do this, I can't help but feel uneasy about the consolidation of all these resources.

Microsoft, `Open`AI, Github, LinkedIn, Stackoverflow .. Feels like it will end badly.
I imagine you put a lot of time into this. That’s why I pointed out about the critical bug in this page - it sporadically reloads the page completely preventing it’s use on mobile. 50% of users are mobile users in the general case. Just my 2 cents
A $5 Pi Pico has two UARTS, but is not an FPGA; "Show HN: PicoVGA Library – VGA/TV Display on Raspberry Pi Pico" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35117847#35120403

According to https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberrypipico/comments/1aut3l2/co... ,
pico-uart-bridge turns a pico into 6 TTL UARTs; https://github.com/Noltari/pico-uart-bridge
Enhancing OpenRCT2 Performance
We had a minor scandal here in Canada. The same company behind Vuse vapes (Imperial Tobacco of Canada) got approval for an oral product that falls in the same category as nicotine gum, legally. Not heavily controlled. The regulators had apparently never considered that someone might try to market nicotine gum to children who do not use any nicotine products. It was approved as normal, just another off-brand nicotine replacement.

To quote the Health Minister, "We were duped." Within a few months in most provinces, orders in council had been drafted to ban the advertising, and prohibit flavours except mint, and there may now be amendments to the laws federally to go further. The slow bureaucratic march to patch the loophole began as soon as it was recognized, basically. Still, the brazenness is stunning. It's the same mentality behind the marketing of the vapes.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10142796/health-minister-nicotine...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nicotine-pouches-regulation...
> "As debt increases, you narrow the range of outcomes you can endure in life."

when you have cash you do what you want. when you have debt you do what someone else wants.
Scientists are trying to get cows pregnant with synthetic embryos
Startup Storytelling with HackerNoon Creator David Smooke
'Lost' satellite found after orbiting undetected for 25 years
> outside of a potential rise of property taxes, my "rent" payment will not exceed a certain number of dollars

And home insurance, too. But generally, yes: over the course of decades an American fixed-rate mortgage really is a wonderful thing.

There is also the possibility of deflation to worry about, although deflation comes with many other problems. I personally think that worrying about deflation is like worrying about a meteor, or the collapse of the local government: if it happens, so many other bad things will also happen that my mortgage will be the least of my concerns.
I feel like they are announcing that OpenAI is going to be getting worse at answering technical questions.

I use OpenAI because StackOverflow answers are just the absolute wrong answer. A combination of gaslighting (you shouldn't be having this problem), dogmatic enforcement of good ideas that started as guidelines and problematic example code that should not be trusted. You are better of with a reddit thread or a blogpost and much better of with actual documentation. StackOverflow is the thing that causes the bugs and the tech debt in the first place.

At least now OpenAI's competition has a fighting chance, because their models won't be poisoned by SO
In addition to the standard ways of dealing with this given by other commenters (keeping the original input around), perhaps more interesting is to imagine how befreak might compute 12 mod 4 using repeated subtraction.

I'm not clever enough to write the solution, but I imagine a loop using the branching operators (<, >, v, ^). Since each time through the loop pushes a bit onto the control stack, you have a built-in count for the number of times the loop was traversed.

In the example of 12 mod 4, the program would loop through 3 times and break once giving you 0001 (or 1110) on the control stack and something like 12, 8, 4, 0 on the stack. Then when reversing, control bits would be popped off and you'd end up going back 0, 4, 8, 12.
Yeah if we had some kind of unlimited propulsion systems, the Expanse trajectory would be optimal in so many ways. Forget about transfer orbits - just point at the target and burn.

The Expanse subreddit has a lot of people doing math on such things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/128c8rv/update_...
Ethereum's Cofounder Says SEC Is 'Gaslighting' Everyone About Crypto
How do you genetically engineer a resistance to fluid in the lungs, or radiation exposure, or whatever all the other interesting ways to die in space are?

Imagine all the suffering caused by failed attempts, people living their whole life with bad lungs so a privileged few can get a little closer to their space fantasy. I wouldn't want to be born into that experiment
There is no such thing as "tobacco vape oil"

I would trust vape juice 1000x over thc oil, especially if it was unflavored. Vape juice is three ingredients and very easy to get their pure forms. Vape oil is pretty sketchy and has to be done very carefully.

But thc gummies are almost certainly safer than any of the above.
This has happened time and time again with B2B systems - I sign up for a trial, begin poking it, and then work happens and by the time I go back the trial is dead.
> the book “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” by David Graeber

Also would recommend Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing:

> Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century.

> At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin.

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50358103

And The power of gold : the history of an obsession (and Bernstein's other books):

> Incorporating myth, history and contemporary investigation, Bernstein tells the story of how human beings have become intoxicated, obsessed, enriched, impoverished, humbled and proud for the sake of gold. From the past to the future, Bernstein's portrayal of gold is intimately linked to the character of humankind.

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/249245
i haven't them recently but in the past I found smaller companies are much better at customization.

try assemblyai, deepgram, picovoice or speechmatics.
picovoice is on-device, you gotta fine-tune the model, but it's pretty easy as it gives you pronunciation recommendations, and you can run them serverless. https://picovoice.ai/docs/leopard/#add-custom-vocabulary
the others do it through an API call and you gotta find your own pronunciation: https://docs.speechmatics.com/features/custom-dictionary

if you wanna go with whisper you can use picoVoice falcon or pyannote for speaker diarization:
https://picovoice.ai/blog/falcon-whisper-integration/
https://github.com/yinruiqing/pyannote-whisper
Graeber's book is about how debts work in different societies and cultures and what they mean. i finished the book being more confused about debt and money than when i started. that said, it was an interesting read, i don't regret reading it.

in contrast, this brief blog post by Morgan Housel gives a small visual metophor and a rule of thumb about how too much debt might be fatal when operating a business. arguably it teaches you something actionable, but doesn't tell you anything about your society.

Graeber's book is not at all concerned with giving you actionable advice on how to best use (or avoid) debt to run a business within your society.

that said, Graeber's book may give you some actionable advice on how to get along better with your neighbours, family and community. the tip would be: try to have everyone in the village owe each other debts. the idea is everyone should feel they have some obligation to others that they can never fully repay, but maybe they can return some other incomparable favour or assistance in future. this encourages cooperation.

trying to fully repay or balance these debts would be frowned upon -- such behaviour is what one might do if one were seeking to not participate in society any more. not pro-social.
I honestly wonder why not just write your web server in node or something. It would be traceable and testable and probably performant enough. There's just so much arcana inside platforms like traefik or nginx where they do all this miraculous stuff if you just add the right flags, but also when it doesn't work it's a total black box and there's no way to discover what it thinks it's doing.
The Verge shows how Google search is useless
I agree, and have the same problem.

What books did you end up liking for 9 year olds?
One problem is organizing things in a more hierarchical fashion.

I like Onetab for saving everything in one go. But it would be nice to easily select / organize into bookmarks for later.

Onetab gets slow af when you have thousands of saved sessions
Quite a bit, believe it or not. It's often an economies of scale problem, as well as a subject matter expertise problem.

On the front, working with a publisher can help with funding. A publisher will often times front a fair amount of development costs, which depending on funding sources will often time make up a significant portion of the revenue needed for development. When people see exclusivity deals, that happens because the developer receives advanced funding for development costs, usually a significantly larger amount than one would receive from a publisher that has no platform associated with it.

For smaller studios, these teams may not have any marketing expertise. While an independent marketing team may be able to help out with this, the publisher managing this relationship, especially with teams either internal or external that they have experience with, allows the studio to focus on their development efforts.

That's not to say this is always sunshine and rainbows. The stories of publisher imposed deadlines, restrictions, etc. are true, usually without a lot of the inside baseball color of the why of these deadlines are required. That said, when Other People's Money comes into play, things always change. The cost of delaying a release is not small, even more so when there are physical products being made and fulfillment to be managed. That's not me being an apologist, just trying to add a bit more color to the social media talking points.

To the point I think you're trying to make though, with the amount of self publishing tools available, it's definitely not the necessity that it used to be to be. However, the dynamics of whether one can do something, vs. whether they're the right ones to do so something are always nuanced, especially when it comes down to the calculus of whether the benefits and the trade offs line up.
Those are great points. Even the page layout of the documentation is terrible. Whywe have huge monitors and millions of pixels if I have to read content from a very narrow column, which is a mile long?

Eg: https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/routing/services/

If you visit that page in your desktop browser you'll get less words per column then seeing this on the iPad (works even in dev tools window). Mind blowing.